What do they want to do with items once in the common format? View only? Then produce pdf (even if you weren't moving them about). Edit? How about rtf (can be dumped/written in the MS environment and reputedly read by Linux packages)?
If you really meant >parse< the Word documents, then rtf is >relatively< easy to parse with home-grown code - I have done this once before (in C++, not CF) and it only took about 3 man-years. If you want to contact me off-list with a phone number I can tell you what's involved. Hint: it is too long to put in an email. BTW, don't even contemplate trying to parse native .doc format without using the VBA document model. In contrast .rtf format is at least documented (in MSDN) and is a feasible if onerous task. Did you really mean parse? Why (in app/business terms)? HTH Duncan Fenton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 February 2004 12:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] Parsing MS Word with CF common format: .txt ;-) Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tim Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> t.com> cc: Subject: [ cf-dev ] Parsing MS Word with CF 25/02/2004 12:15 Please respond to dev Morning... Same project, different question... [I've just been given the dubious pleasure (?!?!) of spending a day next week showing has a customer's existing database can be neatly integrated into a CMS.] They currently have a number of projects which have associated information in MS Word format. All the Word docs are *supposed* to be of a common format, but as happens when you have different people starting with a word template, everything goes horribly wrong... One of the things they really want is for these word docs to be pulled from their current location, parsed and stuck into the CMS in a common format. Oh yay. Problem: we're running on linux, so no COM. Anyone have *any* idea how I'm going to manage this one? Tim. ------------------------------------------------------- Try the ColdFusion Coding Contest! Current contest: Maze Solver - http://tech.badpen.com/cfcontest/ ------------------------------------------------------- RAWNET LTD - Internet, New Media and ebusiness Gurus. WE'VE MOVED - for our new address, please visit our website at http://www.rawnet.com/ or call us any time on 0800 294 24 24. ------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is legally privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorised disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information is strictly prohibited. Such notification notwithstanding, any comments, opinions, information or conclusions expressed in this message are those of the originator, not of rawnet limited, unless otherwise explicitly and independently indicated by an authorised representative of rawnet limited. ------------------------------------------------------- -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
